Eagle Scout's pocket knife gets him suspended

Where was the pocket knife? In the trunk of his car, where he kept it with his emergency survival gear. But the school decided that, since the car was parked on school grounds, it was still a violation and suspended him for 20 days. He's just hoping that it won't keep him out of West Point.

Wisconsin teen used blowdart to kill rabbit, police say

Which is against the law there. (Probably didn't help that he allegedly left the rabbit, blowdart still attached, lying in a driveway.)

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Man builds mole trap using shotgun shell, steel plate

And he only loses PART of a finger! Police aren't sure if they'll charge him for setting an illegal trap.

Good news! More nutjobs are wearing body armor!

Both the Binghamton and Pittsburgh shooters were wearing body armor when they went on their killing sprees because there isn't a background-check requirement, The AP reports. (Their story doesn't explicitly explain why this is a bad thing -- I presume it's because it makes killing the nutjobs just a little harder.)

Cedar Rapids police want to ban BB guns

And paintball guns, too. The police say they've had something like 150 cases of broken windows that can be blamed on the devices. I understand what they're trying to do -- but if somebody REALLY wants to break a window, don't you think they'll just find something else to accomplish the task. It seems unfair to take a kid's BB gun from him.

KC man accused of possessing Molotov cocktails

From Christine Vendel:

Kansas City police found two Molotov cocktails in a man’s car Sunday after he allegedly threatened a woman.

Jackson County prosecutors charged Jahn M. Moore, 29, with possession of an illegal weapon. He was in jail today in lieu of a $100,000 bond.

According to court records, a woman called police about 2:20 a.m. Sunday and said Moore had threatened to drive his car into her house if she didn’t pay him money she owed him for damage to his vehicle. He later allegedly called back and threatened to shoot her.

Police stopped Moore’s car near 31st Street and Spruce Avenue, two blocks from the woman’s home, and found two glass bottles filled with gas. One was topped with a rag.

Gun owners go on a bullet-buying spree

It's gotten to the point where the entire state of Florida is facing a bullet shortage. Experts say that a lot of gun owners are worried the Obama administration is going to push for a new tax on ammo.

MO man needed explosives for "the end of the world," police say

Police say a 22-year-old man, who believes the world will end in 2012, stole a gob of C4 -- about 50 pounds worth -- from a police training area near St. Charles, Mo., back in summer 2007. A friend reportedly tipped the authorities off after catching a glimpse of his pal's armory.

(It's never for anything fun, like "because I wanted to have the bestest July Fourth ever." Nope, it's usually Y2K or a large-scale murder plot.)

Now we know why he got the leading role in the movie, "Jackass."

Johnny Knoxville was caught trying to bring an inert grenade through LAX security in his carry-on luggage.

-Meredith Rodriguez

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Iraq vet accused of selling homemade IEDS to OK City gangstas

I always see this Army recruitment ads on TV, showing how servicemembers can use skills they learned in the military back in the regular working world. I don't think this is what they meant.

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Police shoot man yelling, "Just shoot me."

OK, the gun in his hand may have been added incentive.

|Meredith Rodriguez

UPDATE: Teen turns disposable camera into stun gun

Which is more awesome when you consider the average person has a hard time using a disposable camera as a disposable camera. He got suspended for it, though, but the school has dropped the matter after he sued them. Huzzah!

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A mother's love

How not to help your son deal with bullying: BUYING HIM WEAPONS.

VA man caught with guns, grenade in DC

The AP says the man stopped to ask a police officer for directions, and the officer noticed a rifle case in the vehicle, which led to a full search. Happened near the Library of Congress. CNN notes that nobody is saying the guy planned an attack.

Why I love auctions

Arkansas authorities had a bit of scare when auctioneers found a case of C-4 sitting among the goods at an estate sale. (Between a porcelain coffee set and some decorative eggs, as it turns out. Wonder if they were being sold as a group.) Police say the explosives were 15 years old, which made them even MORE unstable.

The owner would have faced charges ... if he weren't already dead.

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Ninja vigilantes target drug-dealing scum, police say

Story is from New Jersey, where two young men dressed up as ninjas and armed themselves with swords, nunchuks, throwing stars and other weapons -- all in an effort to rid their streets of drug-dealing scum!

Which they attempted, mostly, by writing nasty letters to local drug dealers and their clientele, police say. The "Shinobi Warriors" are now facing charges ...

Twenty-year-old Tadeusz Tertkiewicz and 19-year-old Jesse Trojaniak are charged with weapons possession. Tertkiewicz is also charged with harassment for a letter left for an ex-girlfriend.

Trojaniak's father tells The Associated Press his son is "not a maniac" and was only trying to help a friend.

Update on our continuing samurai-sword crisis

A Connecticut man is accused of brandishing a samurai sword at a pedestrian because he was taking too long to cross the parking lot, the Courant says. The suspect says it was in self-defense.

The wrong kind of stuffing

Connecticut police want to find the person who stuffed a raw chicken with a pipe bomb and left it lying by the side of the road. Really? You want to meet him, Connecticut police? I think I'd prefer to avoid the fevered imagination behind something like that ...

UK to wage anti-knife crime campaign

Apparently the UK is having so much trouble with stabbings that they've launched a social campaign. This makes me think of those "Talk to your children about sex" billboards.

The campaign, to be run over the next three years, was developed and written by young people who have themselves been affected by knife crime.

A series of ads aimed at mothers, encouraging them to talk about the issue with their children, will run simultaneously.

| Sara Shepherd

China requires people to sign registry if they buy "potentially deadly" knives

Though I suppose that most knives are potentially deadly in the wrong hands. Snip:

The targeted daggers include those with blood grooves, lock-knives, and knives with blades measuring over 22 centimeters, the ministry said in a circular posted on its website.

22 cm = 8.7 inches

UK enacts widespread samurai sword ban

Now the limeys can't make, import or sell samurai swords, though there are loopholes for collectors or people doing reenactments. No word on how their sonic screwdriver ban is coming along. (That's right -- I'm pretty sure this is all prelude to a Dalek invasion.)

KS governor isn't sure if she'll sign bill allowing machine guns

We might need to have a prayer vigil to get this thing signed into law.

I want to say one word to you. Plastics.

NBC News has a piece here about the growing popularity of plastic knuckles -- brass knuckles that are made of highly dense plastic, tough enough to punch through a watermelon. Apparently, it's child's play to sneak them through security checkpoints. Also, they were able to dig up video of a schoolteacher getting punched.

NY police find pipe bombs in Brooklyn apartment

And the occupant? Happens to be a guy accused of spray-painting anti-Semitic messages on houses, cars and synagogues. He says he's innocent -- the pipe bombs were merely for fishing.

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Rafaela Mendez

Mendez, 71, was arrested for allegedly trying to sneak a blackjack into the Tampa airport. From the St. Pete Times:

Mendez, a native of Puerto Rico who lives in Tampa, told authorities she carried the weapon "to smack people's hands when they got fresh," an arrest report shows.